The French Journal des Roses does not wholly devote itself to new roses.

In the October number it gives a colored plate of the beautiful old hybrid perpetual Sidonie, which to day is not surpassed by any new one, when we take into consideration a number of good points.

It is especially interesting as being the parent of the whole race of hybrid perpetuals. It was raised, in 1820, from an English hybrid China rose, named as the Portland, or Portland Damask, a hybrid with the Rosa Indica and Rosa gallica.

The raiser of Sidonie was a Mons. Godefroy, florist of Ville d'Avry in France.